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Suppose that instead of paying per hour, a moving company offers a flat rate of $1,200 for movers plus a truck for an eight hour day. If you hired this moving company and used them for the entire eight hours, how much consumer surplus would you gain?

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jepessoa

Answer:

the first part of the question is missing, so I looked for a similar one (see attached image):

the cost of hiring a moving crew for 8 hours = $250 per hour x 8 hours = $2,000

the competing company offered you a deal worth $1,200

since you expect to use the moving crew during the whole 8 hours, you will gain = $2,000 - $1,200 = $800 in consumer surplus

Consumer surplus is the difference between what a consumer (in this case you) are willing to pay for a good or service and the actual price of the good or service. Consumer should be willing to consumer a good or service as long as the consumer surplus is ≥ 0.

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annyksl

800 dollars of consumer surplus would be earned.

We can arrive at this answer as follows:

  • You must calculate the cost of hiring the team. This will be done with the following calculation:

[tex]250*8=2,000[/tex]

In this case, we can consider that the cost of hiring the team for eight hours of work will be [tex]2,000[/tex] dollars.

Then, we can calculate the difference between the team's hiring price and the $1,200 that the competitor offered. This will be done with the following calculation:

[tex]2,000-1,200=800[/tex]

With that, we can say that the consumer surplus is equal to 800 dollars.

The question above is incomplete. The full question is in the attached image.

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https://brainly.com/question/20840766?referrer=searchResults

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